Grumman Goose

s/n 382

as/n 37786

m/d G-21

c/n B.39

Grumman

382

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37786. Used by No. 167 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, 1944 to 1945. To civil register postwar as N60093, and CF-ESZ.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 208 | 1968 625

s/n 383

as/n 37787

m/d G-21

c/n B.40

Grumman

383

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37787. Delivered to No. 412 (T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario April 1949.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 208

s/n 384

as/n 37792

m/d G-21

c/n B.45

Grumman

384

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37792. Operated by No. 122 (K) Squadron on west coast, 1944. Still on west coast in 1946, possibly with No. 166 Squadron. Operated by No. 9 (T) Group from Rockcliffe in May 1946. To civil registry as CF-GEB (or CF-CGH?), later to US as N1042.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 628

s/n 385

as/n 37797

m/d G-21

c/n B.50

Grumman

385

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37797. Assigned to Eastern Air Command. To civil register postwar as CF-EXA, H.J. O'Connell Supplies of Montreal,PQ. Crashed June 1958 at Pointe Claire. Pilot misused fuel selector leading to engine failure on final approach during bad weather, aircraft struck a tree, dislodging one engine from the wing. Several injuries, no fatalities. Aircraft scrapped.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 625

s/n 386

as/n 37802

m/d G-21

c/n B.55

Grumman

386

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37802. Manufactured in April 1944. Used by 412(T) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ont, in 1952 and 1953. Radio call sign was VC-AOQ, displayed as "AO*Q" on fuselage. Visited Golden Lake, Ontario in May 1953, in support of survey operations by 408 Squadron. To civil register as CF-HUY, later C-FHUY, postwar. To Powell River Corp. 1955-1959. Then to Sioux Narrows Airways, Ontario 1966-1972. Parsons Airways Northern, 1973-1977. Nunasi Central Airlines, 1980-1982. Ontario Central Airways, 1983-1984. Then to US register as N7F, Lester Bingman, Freshwater Adventures, Dillingham Alaska 1987. Still operational c. 2000. Re-registered as N159F.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 630

s/n 387

as/n 37801

m/d G-21

c/n B.54

Grumman

387

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37801. Used by No. 167 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, 1944 to 1945. Category C damage at Moncton, NB on 30 June 1944. To civil register postwar as N2721A, then VH-CRL, then PK-LEH.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209

s/n 388

as/n 37807

m/d G-21

c/n B.60

Grumman

388

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37807. Operated by No. 122 (K) Squadron on west coast, 1944. Used by No. 166 Squiadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, 1944 to 1945. Reported Category A damage on 13 April 1945, apparently repairable. Postwar to civil registry as N4762C, Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209

s/n 389

as/n 37808

m/d G-21

c/n B.61

Grumman

389

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37808. Assigned to Western Air Command.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209

s/n 390

as/n 37817

m/d G-21

c/n B.70

Grumman

390

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37817. To civil register postwar as CF-ETJ, later C-FETJ. Manufactured In July 1944. To Queen Charlotte Airlines 1953-1954 . Canadian Forest Products, 1955. BNP Airways. West Coast Transport 1958-1956. Canadian Forest Products 1976-1982. To Air Pac, Anchorage Ak. as N2889J in 1982? Sold to Ronald J. Rivett, Aberdeen, SD. in 1998.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 625

s/n 391

as/n 37824

m/d G-21

c/n B.77

Grumman

391

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37824. To civil register postwar as C-FBFS, then C-FMPG. Operated by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from 1946 to 1994. Now in National Aeronautical Museum, in C-FMPG markings.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 633

s/n 392

as/n 37823

m/d G-21

c/n B.76

Grumman

392

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37823. Manufactured in August 1944. Used by No. 166 Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, 1944 to 1945. To civil register postwar, Kashower Air Service Ltd. Oshowa, Ontario, May 22, 1947 as CF-FEM. To Dionne Automobiles Ltd. Rimouski, Quebec, May 23, 1947. To Rimouski Airlines (Ltd., Rimouski, Quebec, May 27, 1947. To G.W. Crothers Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, October 23, 1947. To British American Oil Co. Toronto, Ontario, December 14, 1948. Registration changed February 7, 1949 to CF-BAE. To B.N.P. Airways Ltd. Vancouver, B. C., December 13, 1951 as CF-BAE. To Powell River Co. Ltd. Vancouver B.C., May 31, 1952. To B.N.P. Airways Ltd., Vancouver B.C., May 31, 1955. To Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd. Vancouver,BC, May 26, 1964. To US register, Pan Aviation Inc., Miami, Florida, January 21, 1985 as N93GS. To Amphibian Sales Inc. (Dean Franklin) Miami, Florida as N93GS. To Classic Wings, Inc. Coraopolis, Pennsylvania as N93GS. To Caribbean Clipper, Isle of Islay, Argyll, U.K. as U.S. Registration N93GS. Crashed near Port Hardy, BC on 3 August 2008. 5 killed, 2 survivors.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 611 | 1968 626

s/n 393

as/n 37830

m/d G-21

c/n B.78

Grumman

393

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 37830. Manufactured in September 1944. Served with Test and Development Flight at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, dates unknown. To No. 9 (T) Group, later Air Transport Command, from 1946. To civil register postwar, to Powell River Corp.Feb 14 1956 as CF-HUZ. To Macmillon-Bloedel Corp. Vancouver, B.C. 1966. Named Dryad II. To West Coast Transmission Ltd. 1967-1977. Back to Macmillon-Bloedel Corp. Vancouver, B.C. 1980-1989. To Pacific Coastal Airlines/ Port Hardy B.C. in 1994 as C-FHUZ, still in commercial operations c. 2000.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 630

s/n 394

as/n 84795

m/d G-21

c/n B-90

Grumman

394

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 84795. To No. 9 (T) Group, later Air Transport Command, from 1946. Also reported as c/n B.48, probably not correct.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209

s/n 395

as/n 84803

m/d G-21

c/n B.98

Grumman

395

Lend-Lease to RCAF as 395 delivered Dec 5, 1944. SOC Sep 25, 1947. Was c/n B.98, BuNo 84803, also reported as this in "Air Arsenal America" by Butler). Assigned to Western Air Command. With No. 166 Squadron when it carried photographers for first flight of last Canadian built Canso on 28 February 1945. To civil register postwar as N3284 (or CF-GEC?). To N94750, to CF-GEC Jun 8, 1958, to C-FGEC. Crashed Aug 14, 1978 at Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 628

s/n 396

as/n 84804

m/d G-21

c/n B.99

Grumman

396

Lend-Lease to RCAF as 396, delivered Dec 16, 1944. SOC Jan 13, 1946. Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 84804 Assigned to Western Air Command.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209

s/n 397

as/n 84812

m/d G-21

c/n B.107

Grumman

397

Was USN JRF-5, BuAer 84812. With No. 12 (Com) Squadron at Rockcliffe in 1945. Assigned to No. 9 (T) Group, later Air Transport Command, in 1946. Operated by No. 12 (Com) Squadron in September 1946. SOC Jan 8, 1948,then to civil registry as CF-IOL Feb 5, 1948, C-FIOL. WFU Sep 24, 2012
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 209 | 1968 631

s/n 796

m/d G-21

c/n 1020

Grumman

796

Purchased second hand, was US registered as NC20650. Manufactured in 1938. Previous owners included Nevada Explorers and Gillie Aviation. Originally purchased by the RAF for use in the UK, when a sufficient quantity could not be purchased the three aircraft already acquired were diverted to the RCAF. To No. 121 (K) Squadron at RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS in 1942, coded "KN*A". Damaged at Torbay, Newfoundland on 3 September 1942. Used by No. 167 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, 1943 to 1944. Postwar to Brazilian civil registry as PP-XAN, then to Icelandic register TF-RVA from 1946 to 1951. Registered to Cordova Airlines of Cordova, Alaska as N1503V. With Avalon Air Transport of Long Beach California when it crashed at Kodiak, Alaska on 25 December 1961.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 216

s/n 797

m/d G-21A

c/n 1059

Grumman

797

Was NC2788, registered to R. Lehman. Manufactured in February 1939. Originally purchased by the RAF for use in the UK, when a sufficient quantity could not be purchased the three aircraft already acquired were diverted to the RCAF. Served with No. 121 (K) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS from 1943. To civil register postwar, Laurentian Air Services, Ottawa, 1944-1974, as CF-BXR. To Trans Provincial Airlines, Prince Rupert, BC. On 8 October 1979 struck deadheads while taking off at Seal Cove, BC. Pilot beached aircraft and evacuated passengers, aircraft than drifted away and sank. Recovered, repaired. To Pattison Industries Richmond, BC 1988. To Trans Provincial Airlines of Prince Rupert, BC, 1980 to 1989. Reported sank at dock in Ketchikan, Alaska, date not confirmed. Later to US register, Devcon Construction, Tualaton, Or. 1990 as N39FG. Capsized in Rose Harbor, Washington in 2000, recovered and repaired. Reported still airworthy c.2000, possibly with new registration, N39FG listed as "uncertain" by FAA by then.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 216 | 1968 614

s/n 798

m/d G-21

c/n 1018

Grumman

798

Manufactured in July 1938 as G-21-G-21A. First registered as NC20648, to Texas Co. (Texaco). Originally purchased by the RAF for use in the UK, when a sufficient quantity could not be purchased the three aircraft already acquired were diverted to the RCAF. Used by No. 122 (K) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1942 and 1943. Used by No. 166 Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, 1943 to 1945. Sold In the USA, later to Ecuador register as HC-SBV. Crashed April 1949.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 216

s/n 917

m/d G-21A

c/n 1016

Grumman

917

Manufactured in June 1938, sold to Gillies Aviation 1938. Later sold to RCAF. Taken on charge 26 July 1938. Served with Test and Development Flight at RCAF Station Rockcliffe, in late 1939. Used by No. 12 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, as VIP transport. Delivered I. MacKenzie, Minister of Defence and A/M B. Bishop from Toronto to Vancouver, leaving on 27 July 1939. Back at Ottawa by 8 August 1939, with Communications Flight. Category C damage on 17 May 1940, when it landed gear up at Toronto Island Airport at night. Passengers included W/C W. Curtis. Used by No. 13 (OT) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1940 to 1942, coded "AN*P". Used by No. 122 (K) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1942. Crashed in mountains near Cape Yakatage, near Yakutat, Alaska on 21 July 1942, while en route Yakutut to Anchorage. Hit trees while flying low under bad weather. Two fatalities, several injuries amongst 5 survivors. Survivors found on 29 July, rescue not completed for several more days. Four Alaskan civilians received cheques from the Canadian government for their assistance in rescuing the survivors. Salvaged for spare parts.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218

s/n 924

m/d G-21

c/n 1013

Grumman

924

Manufactured in May 1938. First registered as CF-BKE, to J.P. Bickell, Toronto. Later to McIntyre-Porcupine Mines, 1938. Dontated to the RCAF by Mr. Bickell. Used by No. 13 (OT) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1940 to 1942. Coded "MK-G". Operated by No. 120 (BR) Squadron from RCAF Station Coal Harbour, BC, c.1943. Used by No. 122 (K) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1942 and 1943 (same code?). Still carried this code in September 1943, while with the Photographic Flight, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ont. Used by No. 167 (Comm) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS, 1943 to 1945. To US register postwar as NC18175, sold to Union Mining Co.of Pittsburg on 1 January 1945. Later registered as N121H. Converted to G-21E, McKinnon S/N 1211, in 1970. Owned and piloted by Jack Rodgers, when it crashed at DuPage Airport near Chicago on 14 June 1995. Aircraft had not flown in 2 years, was performing circuits when it over rotated while taking off with flaps down and suffered a departure stall. Largely destroyed by post impact fire. Owner and one other killed.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218 | 1968 612

s/n 925

m/d G-21

c/n 1082

Grumman

925

Purchased in the US under Contract CAN-2, carried US registration NX925 when delivered to Canada. Flew Montreal to Rockcliffe on 15 January 1941. Served with No. 121 (K) Squadron, RCAF Station Darthmouth, NS. Sunk at Vancouver on 15 December 1941, apparently recovered. Coded "EN-B" in summer of 1942, while with this unit. Reported as crashed November 1942.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218

s/n 926

m/d G-21A

c/n 1083

Grumman

926

Manufactured in July 1940 as G-21A. Purchased in the US under Contract CAN-2. Served with No. 121 (K) Squadron, RCAF Station Dartmouth, NS. Carried Governor General Earl of Athlone to RCAF Station Trenton 9 July 1941. Overturned in gale force winds on St. Lawrence River at Quebec City on 5 September 1941. Towed ashore and repaired. Pilot W/C L.E. Wray received AFC for salvage efforts. To civil register postwar as CF-BZY. Owned by Canada Veneers Ltd., St. John from 1945 to 1951. Sold in USA in May 1951, registered first as N36992, later N3692. To the UK, registered as G-ASXG to the Grosvenor Estates. McKinnon turbine conversion performed by Marshalls of Cambridge while on the UK register. Imported into Canada in 1972, to Airwest Airlines Ltd., Vancouver, BC. To Trans Provincial Airlines, Prince Rupert, BC., then to Air BC Ltd. 1978. Converted back to pistons by 1986, possibly because of problems with approving the UK modifications in Canada. To Pacific Coastal Airlines, Port Hardy, BC. Destroyed 12 May 1988 in a water landing accident. Some wreckage still stored at Port Hardy Airport in 2006.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218 | 1968 615

s/n 939

m/d G-21

c/n 1005

Grumman

939

Manufactured in October 1937 as G-21-G-21A, US registration NC16914. first owner was Col. McCormick, 1937. Purchased under Contract CAN-97 in the US, temporary registration CF-BTE used for delivery flight to Canada in September 1940. Used by No. 12 (Com) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario. Later registered as HC-SBB. Crashed at Rio Curaray 1949.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218 | 1968 613

s/n 940

m/d G-21

c/n 1002

Grumman

940

Originally NC16911, delivered to Henry Morgan in September, 1937. On August 25, 1939, it was purchased from the original owner under Contract CAN-100, and ferried to Canada as CF-BTF. Used by No. 13 (OT) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1940 to 1942. On March 14, 1941, it was involved in a Category C accident at Patricia Bay. Used by No. 122 (K) Squadron, coded "AB*F", for flights to Alaska. Picked up survivors of Goose 917 crash on 30 July 1942. Used by No. 166 Squadron, RCAF Station Sea Island, BC, 1943 to 1945. Sold to the U.S., appearing on the U.S. register as NC66020 before being purchased by Bahamas Airways and exported. It was re-registered as VP-BAE. On March 16, 1947 it was involved in an accident at Nassau and is presumed destroyed.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218 | 1968 613

s/n 941

m/d G-21A

c/n 1061

Grumman

941

Manufactured in December 1939. Registered to J.P. Bickell, Toronto, as CF-BQE, on 29 January 1940. Donated to the RCAF by Mr. Bickell in October 1940. Used by No. 13 (OT) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1940 to 1942. Operated by No. 122 (K) Squadron on west coast, 1942, regularly carried VIPs to remote bases along west coast. Exported in February 1945, to Northwest Air Services of Seattle, Washington. To Alaska Coastal Airlines, January 1945-1962, as N48550. To Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines 1962-1967. To Alaska Airlines, 1967-1972. To Antilles Airboats 1972-?. To Larry Teufel of Portland, Oregon in 1990, current owner, c.2000.

August 26, 2022 Marty Batura and the crew from Worldwide Aircraft were at the park assembling the Grumman Goose, (photo below) an airplane donated to the park from a private collector.

last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218 | 1968 612

s/n 942

m/d G-21

c/n 1003

Grumman

942

Manufactured as G-21 in September 1937. Registered as NC16912 to E. Harriman. Purcahsed by RCAF through Grumman Aircraft. Allocated to No. 13 (OT) Sqn. Vancouver on March 29, 1942. Used by No. 122 (K) Squadron, RCAF Station Patricia Bay, BC, 1942 and 1943. Surplused May 9, 1945 at Patricia Bay and sold in Canada. Bought on April 24, 1945 by Hamiltair Ltd. (Hamilton Standard Propellers), registered as CF-BHL, the first civilian Goose in Canada. To Malibu Searo Service Ltd. 5 July 1945. To BNP Airways in 1950. To Central B.C. Airways on 22 May 1952. On January 21, 1953, force landed due to bad weather and sank at Kingscorner Point north of Butedale, B.C. 5 fatalities. Only the pilot survived.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218 | 1968 611

s/n 943

m/d G-21

c/n 1007

Grumman

943

Manufactured in November 1937 as G-21-G-21A. Seventh Goose built. First registered as NC16916, to P.Crosley Jr. Purchased through Grumman Aircraft. Used by No. 12 (Com) Squadron, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario from 1941. Cat. D damage 21 August 1942 when high winds blew four aircraft together at Rockcliffe. Crashed September 1, 1943, repaired. Surplused November 22, 1944 and sold in the USA as NC39084. Later became VP-GAA, Guyana Airways Corp. 1945. Then VP-BAA. Back to USA as N10020, Catalina Channel Airlines, 1959-1963. Catalina Air re-registered as N13CS in 1967.
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218

s/n 944

m/d G-21A

c/n 1019

Grumman

944

Manufactured in August 1938 as G-21A. First registered as NC2385, to C. Whitney, Gillies Aviation. Purchased through Grumman Aviation. Used as VIP transport by No. 12 (Com) Squadron from 1941, with special high gloss finish. Still there April 1943. Sold in USA (as NC2385 again?).
last update: 2024-December-25 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 218

s/n FP471

as/n 37793

m/d G-21A

c/n B-46

Grumman

FP 471

Ex US Navy JRF-5, their serial 37793. To US civil register when sold, as NR46497, then NC1048V. Also registered as VP-GAC, then 8R-GAC, in British Guiana. Registered as N1048V to Aero Accessories of Gibsonville, North Carolina, 2000 to 2006.
last update: 2025-February-05 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 562

s/n FP473

as/n 37806

m/d G-21A

c/n B-59

Grumman

FP 473

Ex US Navy JRF-5, their serial 37806.
last update: 2025-February-05 📙 JA Griffin (2005: Smith, Castle): 1968 562